MothyTim

excellent! Thank you!

The drive is a bare metal install of Windows 10 that I use as my Win 10 VM. I did it this way as I was having out of memory problems and so wanted to be able to boot directly into windows, I've now solved the out of memory issue (turned out to be a dodgy SATA card!!) but would like to retain the ability to boot straight into Windows for the occasional time that I need all the horsepower the machine can provide! The partition that I want to mount at boot is for the swap file, this really helped with the issues I was having so want to keep it! So will it cause me issues if I just leave the whole drive mounted? Cheers, Tim

I thought, maybe wrongly, that it would cause problems if the drive is mounted and then used as a VM?

I had a feeling you'd say that! 😂 Thanks for the example, I'll give it a go!

@jonp @testdasi So I've found the problem! It seems it was the SATA card! Very hard to work out as it was only a problem when moving or dealing with large files! I realized that it only happened when I was accessing the 500gb hard drive (D drive in windows) that I use for capturing video and other large files that I don't need on the array or where I want speed of access. It is connected to a SATA card that I have passed through to the VM's. I was again trying to make a USB stick installer and it kept failing, crashing the whole system. I realised that the downloads folder was on the D drive so I tried it on the C drive and it worked fine! So I've swapped out the card and works fine from the D drive as well now! I've also added a swap file, which also seems to have made a difference! I have a stable system at last! Thanks for everyone's help and sorry for all my rants of frustration!!

Interesting, I have that plug-in, where do I find such a script?

Ok shame! I’ll just have to remember to unmount the ones I don’t want each time I re-boot then!

Ok thanks, I don't see any switches for any of the partitions there are 5, what is a valid partition? The disk is a SSD with my Windows 10 vm on it and can also be booted into baremetal should the need arise! So the 4 partitions that I don't want to Auto-Mount are the EFI, Recovery, Reserved and Main Windows ones. The one that I want to mount is a 32GB ext4 partition for swap file! Cheers, Tim

Hi, thanks but I think you misunderstood me, I’ve done that and would like the 1 partition that I have mounted to auto re-mount on re-boot or array re-start, but not the other partitions? cheers, Tim

Hi, does anyone know if you can auto-mount just 1 partition from a disk? Cheers, Tim

Hi, sorry for the delay replying (work got in the way!). Yes, I was running Windows 10 and 7 on Ubuntu and also a small Debian VM for my PBX! Debian ran all the time and I booted Whichever version of Windows as needed, which wasn't that often as I'd use the Ubuntu desktop for most things! I had docker for only UNMS and Tautulli. Plex, UNIFI etc were installed directly into the OS. Also had Ubuntu configured as a TimeMachine! All worked fine certainly no out of memory errors! There were annoyances mostly running out of disk space for media etc. The machine had an i3 and 8GB RAM at the time, I upgraded the CPU to an i7 and added another 8GB RAM when I upgraded to Unraid. Which is why I started this thread and am fed up with the memory issues being as I doubled the amount! Yes Windows 10 VM is the main issue, I couldn't get Windows 7 to install with GPU pass through. But have got XP to install and works fine, although haven't tried GPU pass through as my graphics card is too new for XP! Yes, I've tried everything suggested and thought I was getting somewhere until the random system crash on Sunday! It was strange as it's fine today and I've been experimenting and added back one by one my pass-throughs all still ok so a bit puzzled now! Cheers, Tim

Ok, so it seems I spoke too soon! Just clicking start on the Windows 10 VM crashed the Unraid GUI!!! Really getting beyond fed up with this!! System wouldn't shutdown cleanly and had to do a hard reset! I really hate having to do that and almost never had to when it was running Ubuntu as server! tower-diagnostics-20190609-1421.zip

Hi, I have a strange issue, I have a folder shared through Nextcloud from my array it has large sound files and I use it to share with colleagues. Whenever anyone downloads any of these files my docker image fills up and then clears itself when they’re done! Does Nextcloud cache the file for some reason? cheers, Tim

@jonp Hi Jon, thanks for the suggestions! Not sure but I may have progress! This morning I removed everything from my existing Win 10 VM inc the GPU (something I hadn't tried before) and then connected with RDP first I tried a bit of simple video editing in pinnacle studio 22 and then exported the video to mp4 this would always hang at around 27%, but this time completed with no errors! So I then moved on to try some music tagging with an auto-tagging and album art program, this would give an ooM error after about 4000 songs usually. Today it tagged 20,000 before the ooM error! This time though Windows remained responsive and I was able the end task the tagging program and shut Windows down normally! So windows has remained stable all day which is a novelty for me! I can't decide if the problem was Windows or if the Tagger just isn't that great! I think tomorrow I will try a clean install of Windows 10 in a normal vdisk as you suggested just to make sure there is nothing going on with the UD interface! Although not going to be able to test the tagger as only have about 8,000 songs to go! I should say that while I was doing these tests in Windows everything else on the server was running as I need it to be and had no issues, so that's my small Debian VM running my PBX and 9 dockers inc Plex! I would also like to achieve a Windows 7 VM as well at some point, but can't find any guides specific to that?

Given up with Windows 7 as no matter what I do I can not get a working install! I've just spent 3 days wasting a lot of time it seems! Now wish I'd spent that time wiping the whole system and giving FreeNAS a try! It's frustrating because the docker side of Unraid is so good! I tried installing with OVMF but had to reduce the CPU pinning down to 1 and use VNC for the install to start! Then no matter what I did I couldn't increase the CPU's or add my Nvidia GTX1050 GPU as passthrough without getting Windows has failed to load screen! So I tried SeaBIOS I could then pin as many CPU's as I wanted, but GPU passthrough would result in Error 43! Spent a whole day on that one! There are many posts both here and else where with lots of ideas tried them all and nothing worked! Then tried changing the install to OVMF and converting the system from MBR to GPT, deleting the MBR partition adding a EFI one and then rebuilding the boot as EFI but was back to needing the install disk to repair the install and that only runs with one CPU and no passthrough! So I was back where I started! A separate issue also fed up with timemachine failing every few weeks and wanting to do a new backup! This is meant to be a NAS at heart and it's not even able to do backups properly! Haven't tried switching to SMB this is possibly the moment to try that!

Good to know! What are your settings compared to mine? Any obvious differences?

Ok so because Windows 10 is unusable on Unraid I thought I'd try Windows 7 as I have a licensed version unused! What a mistake! I guess Unraid just can't cope with running Windows!! First, it would hang on starting Windows screen not even launch the installer, so I searched the forum for clues and found out that you need to pin only one CPU! So I did that and set a low amount of memory and VNC graphics, the installer then ran ok! Now I'm trying to increase the CPU pinning and memory and pass through my Nvidia GPU, but whatever I change it hangs on boot! Before I throw the whole thing out the window anyone had this issue and know how to get around it? My Windows 7 XML, it'll boot like this but not if I add anything! <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <domain type='kvm'> <name>Windows 7</name> <uuid>64f05ecc-7793-25b0-3b55-34c65d97c91e</uuid> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Windows 7" icon="windows7.png" os="windows7"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>6291456</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='4'/> </cputune> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-3.1'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/64f05ecc-7793-25b0-3b55-34c65d97c91e_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv> <relaxed state='on'/> <vapic state='on'/> <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/> <vendor_id state='on' value='none'/> </hyperv> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'> <topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='1'/> </cpu> <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/domains/Windows 7/vdisk1.img'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/mnt/user/isos/Windows7HP_SP1_64.iso'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <boot order='2'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/mnt/user/isos/virtio-win-0.1.171.iso'/> <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x7'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'> <master startport='0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'> <master startport='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> <master startport='4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:df:2b:21'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </input> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' websocket='-1' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-gb'> <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/> </graphics> <video> <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain>

Diabling docker made no difference so I ran the command with everything running! Linux 4.19.43-Unraid. root@Tower:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 8065616 782840 7282776 10% / tmpfs 32768 308 32460 1% /run devtmpfs 8093164 0 8093164 0% /dev tmpfs 8177476 0 8177476 0% /dev/shm cgroup_root 8192 0 8192 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 131072 368 130704 1% /var/log /dev/sdf1 7608512 452288 7156224 6% /boot /dev/loop0 8832 8832 0 100% /lib/modules /dev/loop1 6016 6016 0 100% /lib/firmware /dev/md1 2928835740 2727639880 201195860 94% /mnt/disk1 /dev/md2 2928835740 2536558692 392277048 87% /mnt/disk2 /dev/md3 1952560688 1599520824 353039864 82% /mnt/disk3 /dev/sdh1 244198552 131603744 112011472 55% /mnt/cache shfs 7810232168 6863719396 946512772 88% /mnt/user0 shfs 8054430720 6995323140 1058524244 87% /mnt/user /dev/loop3 1048576 17588 925484 2% /etc/libvirt //TIMS-IMAC/LaCie 976426672 838674548 137752124 86% /mnt/disks/TIMS-IMAC_LaCie /dev/loop2 20971520 13311948 6536900 68% /var/lib/docker shm 65536 0 65536 0% /var/lib/docker/containers/5979b4bcfbfea0f8623ab4dffc815a684a1a37b30a652cd5f84cb12090fdb137/mounts/shm shm 65536 0 65536 0% /var/lib/docker/containers/34ba8b2b0e34d95ef94450f800a8537b139933a667ad3b55313313449acc0fc9/mounts/shm shm 65536 4 65532 1% /var/lib/docker/containers/843681987d72d49eb84ab4ab0697f682f4049142a4fdc4d4daea22cb12508b30/mounts/shm shm 65536 4 65532 1% /var/lib/docker/containers/9b64dfef3d6bf7fb75bc84248e43cead6e83db2d05b225afd2704bbaacca4505/mounts/shm shm 65536 4 65532 1% /var/lib/docker/containers/1e4af7eca0a742825257653caff23d640081d9663ff1304337bcab9c99acbbd6/mounts/shm shm 65536 0 65536 0% /var/lib/docker/containers/4d84190c20a0c6c6d89cad52a3019445e8b1635598f72b0ac764728516432d34/mounts/shm shm 65536 0 65536 0% /var/lib/docker/containers/a47f0c2767e689fe66c6b74603530fa52145a5978ffce5e588e505d6fb2fe92e/mounts/shm shm 65536 0 65536 0% /var/lib/docker/containers/2cce694be62bc90ac9c217888e4bf0d88b5d087c5a80a7ce5b7574e6babf8ecc/mounts/shm shm 65536 0 65536 0% /var/lib/docker/containers/84d6163c0e7e7fa233896769c0b5acb49d30211051ab899af4085ed84e86f2ea/mounts/shm shm 65536 8 65528 1% /var/lib/docker/containers/5d85f3de267ab5d7d72d3bb673a02437a329237016fada7e705a5e531f12f0f5/mounts/shm shm 65536 0 65536 0% /var/lib/docker/containers/489ce636aedca20b29d92bf83f87f66071cf2750e72e5cb813fe99f9d156bcad/mounts/shm shm 65536 0 65536 0% /var/lib/docker/containers/dd752b98ea8d1a145e558e4e51eb7cd561ab77eed505d08c16b7df1c4a0ecce8/mounts/shm root@Tower:~#

Yes disabling docker makes no difference

Ok well, unfortunately, that's made it worse if anything, it now runs out of memory sooner!

LOL! If I can get this sussed then so will I! Yep trying to follow his suggestions!

Ok I've done everything you suggest except mounting the drive through UD because when I select it the form hangs on updating?

Hi, I never run them at the same time.

Hi, I followed Spaceinvaderone's guide to be able to boot from a separate drive? I've added my XML as the screenshots I copied the drive mapping twice it actually is only mapped once! I have just tried to map the drive as unassigned, it seems the drive has to be mounted for the system to see it but the form hangs on updating and doesn't do anything? Tips and Tweaks plug-in already installed and adjusted as suggested. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <domain type='kvm'> <name>Windows 10</name> <uuid>032e02b4-0499-0511-6306-3d0700080009</uuid> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Windows 10" icon="windows.png" os="windows10"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>8388608</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>8388608</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>8</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='2'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='8'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='3'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='9'/> <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='4'/> <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='10'/> <vcpupin vcpu='6' cpuset='5'/> <vcpupin vcpu='7' cpuset='11'/> </cputune> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-3.1'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/032e02b4-0499-0511-6306-3d0700080009_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv> <relaxed state='on'/> <vapic state='on'/> <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/> <vendor_id state='on' value='none'/> </hyperv> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'> <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='2'/> </cpu> <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source dev='/dev/disk/by-id/ata-KINGSTON_SA400S37240G_50026B768284793D'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='sata'/> <boot order='1'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='2'/> </disk> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='sata' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x7'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'> <master startport='0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'> <master startport='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> <master startport='4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:36:ca:92'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x07' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x08' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0a' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <vendor id='0x046d'/> <product id='0xc05b'/> </source> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <vendor id='0x0d8c'/> <product id='0x0014'/> </source> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='2'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <vendor id='0x1a2c'/> <product id='0x0c21'/> </source> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='3'/> </hostdev> <memballoon model='none'/> </devices> </domain>

Ok it completed 2 passes with no errors?